Pros: Silver Lake is a very scenic park. It has several unique areas where the course plays. A handful of holes play on the side of a hill where water comes into play. This is a great park to bring the family for a picnic and play golf all day. It's a very quiet and peaceful park. Restroom facilities are open during the warmer months.

This is a traditional par 54 course with a good variety of shots. I threw pretty much every disc in my bag. This course is great for all skill level players. I had fun playing this course.

Hole #7 has a great green with the lake backstopping the basket. Do not throw your favorite midrange or driver on this left to right playing hole.

Hole #12 is a great hole for learning a RHBH roller.

Holes #1, 2, 4, and #10 are fun downhill holes.

Holes #2, 13, & 14 are nice tunnel shots.

Hole #11 & #17 are good par 4's.

Brand new Gateway Titans.

Tee posts have # on them.

Cons: My major knock on the course is flow. After hole #1 you have to walk up the hill and play back down to #2. After hole #8 there is a long walk to #9 followed by another long walk to #10. After #10 you walk up the hill to play #11 followed by another long walk to #12. This section takes away from the fun of this course.

The tees are natural. I don't mind natural tees and I got a good day to play. They were fairly dry. I'd give this course a 4 disc rating if the tees were improved.

The tee posts do not have distance or hole information on them. Print the map. You will need it to navigate the course for the first time.

I would like to see several baskets moved closer to the water making more risk/reward on those holes.

The walking path to #8 and #17 needs to be cleared a little more.

Other Thoughts: When you enter the main entrance stay to the right and drive around the lake. Take the road around the lake to the north side. There is a tiny lot to the left where #1 and #10 tees are located.

After you tee off on #1 walk to the left and play #2. After you finish hole #2 cut thru the path and go putt out on #1. This will save you 5 minutes and keep you from backtracking up the hill to play #2.

Restrooms are located near the playground. On the course they are between holes #8 & #9. They are closed during the winter.

Pros: Beeeeeeeeeeeeeautiful park, bring your digicam along for sure (I played in the wintertime mind you, it can only get more picturesque when everything fills in/gets green). Views of the lake and a nice quiet setting make this course a pretty peaceful and serene round of golf. (Watch out for the ducks and their, erm, droppings, flying overhead though. Hitchcock would've been proud)

Variety is thoroughly covered here: long (17 and 11), short (2 and 5), hyzer (1,10), anhyzer (2,5,7,8,12), in woods (2,5,13,14), out of woods (1,10,17,18), fast pins (1,2,10,11,16), slow pins (3,12,15), water hazard (1,7,11,10), flick rollers (13,14); beating this course WILL require a complete arsenal, and a fairly large set of stones.

Hole 13 is a cool shot in its own right, but you've GOT to click on the media tab and check out 14. The narrowest, tightest, most frustrating tunnel shot i've ever played, but it's so cool, you HAVE to have fun on that hole.

Both 9's loop back to the pavilion by the parking lot, and parking puts you right on top of 1's tee.

Spankin' new beefy Gateway baskets.

Between the elevation changes, pin speed changes, woodiness changes, and open/tight variety, you won't get bored here. There are similar holes on the course, but they don't follow one another.

Cons: No navigation to get you from the park entrance to the "DG" parking lot.

1 and 10 are the exact same shot: downhill hyzers with water close to the pin. Having some repetitiveness on the course isn't inherently bad, if not inevitable given the terrain, but you tee off from damn near the exact same spot for both holes, the hazards are the same if you foul up, and you have to come back across both fairways to get to the respective next holes. NOT the best strategy anyway, but the first of such i've seen from Dave Mac, and am mildly disappointed. A redesign of these two holes alone will shave 15 minutes off of a round on a crowded day and alleviate a lot of frustration.

This course DESPERATELY needs concrete tees. There's not a flat patch of ground in the park anyway, but such rutted and uneven teepads do a lot to ruin the experience here. Hopefully (if the natural pads stay) the footing will get better in springtime/with a little grooming because it's pretty awful right now.

A close second priority to teepads is navigational aid. Getting from 11's pin to 12's pad specifically will leave many newcomers frustrated as there's nothing around to point you in the right direction. The 8-9, 16-17, and 17-18 transitions are likewise barely navigable if you don't have a guide. Having only hole numbers on the tee posts (no map/directional arrows/pars/yardage) only makes it worse.

No kiosk, no scorecards, sparse trashcans, even fewer benches, no water access, and minimal parking all serve to blemish the experience here. Bathrooms are available to the right of the hole 9-10 transition, but were closed, and no porta-john on site is just asking for people to leave steamy piles in the woods.

The course map provided in the links section is adequate enough to get you from tee to tee, but the 'routes' designated on there are just a step above useless. Showing holes 2 and 10 on there as straight shots is outright BS as you'll see if you play there. 5 and 8 as well are pretty far off of what the map shows you.

Other Thoughts: A fantastic design (save for 1 and 10) that covers all the variety of shots, has great risk/reward, awesome holes like 13 and 14, and enough fast pins near water to crank up the pucker factor. It's open enough for ams to have a good time and tough enough to challenge more advanced players as well.

The setting was very pretty in the wintertime and i bet it's gorgeous when everything is greener. Plenty of photo ops of holes near the lake and 14's shot for sure.

If you're coming from the west, the turn in to the park is mildly obstructed by the woodline to the left, so start slowing down as you approach the (water?) tower and the big microwave array. The left turn to get into the park is just west of that complex, so if you pass them, you've gone too far.

I never got around to the east side of that turn in, but from the west, there's no quickie-mart to stop at to use the john/pick up a snack, so stock up (or drop off :P ) while you're still in the vicinity of Highway 70. It's slim pickins all the way down 143.

Worth the drive (if you're coming from Woodland Park in Collinsville especially, as it's only ~15 miles away). Concrete tees and teesign info make it better (3.5), redesign of 1 and 10, amenities, and navigation aid makes it great (4.0).

Pros: -Course is a nice city park style course that plays through mature oaks on the front 9 and opens up to a somewhat longer, more open back nine...very much like most of dave mac's designs.
-Nice use of available elevation a handful of holes are slight downhill shots (1,2,4,10,11,12), and a couple slightly uphill holes (3, 4)
-Decent variety of hole shapes: some l-->r (5,8,12), some r-->l(1,10), some tunnel shots (2,13,14), a bottle neck or two (16), several mostly open holes, and a couple holes where would would be in play on bad and or long shots (1, 7, 8, maybe 11)
-Some length variety: mostly less than 300' on the front, a couple over 400 on the back.
-Some nice thick rough that punishes inaccuracy.
-Fun little course that will challenge recreational players and most intermeiate players.
-Decent amount of OB.

Cons: -I'm not going to knock the course for being brand new, but cons nonetheless: natural tees, tees signs are just 4x4s with numbers on them, no trashcans etc.
-There will however be problems when the park is busy. The area that the front nine is in has lots of picnic areas, possibly fishermen by the ponds. The back nine might be dangerous as it plays through a series of walking paths, with lots of blind areas.
-The course is pretty short overall, a little lacking on the length variety in the front nine, as most holes are between 250' and 280'.
-If the course gets really busy, there are sure to be backups on some holes 1-2 because you walk back up 2s fairway to get to the teebox, 11 throws toward 18's tee on the first shot.
-A couple of tees were in low spots (15) or drainage ditches (17) and will probably need to be moved before concrete goes in.

Other Thoughts: Overall a very fun course, and beginner friendly, which is nice for the area. I'm excited to see the multiple pins and tees, it'd be nice to see some pins closer to water for tournaments and such, and some tees that draw the length out a bit more. I get out here about once a month, so I'll update the review appropriately.

Pros: This course has great flow. your shot selection is going to be tested. there are a wide range of shots you are going to have to pull out of your bag to get through this one. i will have to say on the pin placements and pads that are there now it is a very beginner friendly course. You can see the baskets from most of the tee pads. It has a variety of tight and open pin placements. A good variety of hyzer and anhyzer shots. It does very much so test you driving accuracy a very good stalker buzz mid range kinda course liked it lots.

Cons: Not much to say... i know it needs additional pin and pad placements. But they will come with time. It did seam very short on the front and not extremly long on the back. just a couple of holes that tested your driving length. at all.

Other Thoughts: good course to play not to far from st louis 45 min. It will make a great get away course to take the crew out on a nice day and do some barbqing and discing.

Pros: Beautiful course laid out in a very large well kept, maintained,and used park. course plays along 3 different lakes with plenty of obs's.only 3 miles off of hwy 70 in highland, sweet.

Cons: not much yet.. hole 5 tee pad may become a issue if it rains alot . fairway looks like a wash of some sort .

Other Thoughts: brand new course just installed. plays good. only walk up preceeding holes 2 times. ..lefty friendly on front 2-9.. many birdies chances plus some good long holes also.. approx.5600 ft par 56.. looks like possible multi pin placement markings too. another great course design by gateway disc sports... must come and play. will give it a 4 when footage and tee signs are installed.

Pros: This course has good flow to it. Great scenery and it also provides great wind play this time of year(Dec).

The front 9 provides several way placed basket that are deuce-able if you have a good drive. I don't remember exactly but their were 2 I could remember that would be give-me 2's. This sets you up for the back 9. Their is more length and these are harder. Of course their are a few deuce holes. All in All, I would say competitive rounds would be around par(54) for advanced players. I would say most pro's would shoot 48-52

Cons: It is a new course. My rating is not skewed by the cons because I played the course like 2 days after the baskets were put in. The 18th basket was also put in by the time I played.

Yes, some paths are unclear, no trash cans, no "established" tee boxes just flags and stakes, some benches on fairways, some minor flooding, blah blah new course. If this course was a year old and these were still issues, yes the ratings should be lower

Other Thoughts: Solid 4 star and should remain this after the course is completely finished. I also heard that additional pin placements or tees are already being thought of. So This course can truly become one of the best in a few years.

Pros: I really enjoyed playing this course! Situated around Silver Lake, the course runs up and down the grounds, making you throw down towards the lake, up through tight technical fairways. Several pin placements against the water. There are many really cool tee and pin placements here. This course has a few long holes, but the way it's put together, overall this is a finesse course. A lot of placement shots, control drives here. All in all, this is a course of really neat holes.

Cons: A few of the tees are quite close to one another. One of the holes had a picnic bench in the fairway. And 18's basket was missing. (?) Tee posts are in, tee's are spraypaint right now, but they do point almost exactly at the pin (so that's good).

Other Thoughts: Being brand new, there are no trashcans. I think I saw a restroom, not sure if it was open. While not overly difficult to figure out, directional signs, tee signs, etc. would be awesome.